Carol Yuen is a Research Assistant at the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL). Carol has a LL.B. from NUS and is admitted to the Singapore Bar. Prior to joining APCEL, Carol represented clients across civil, criminal and public interest cases as a litigation lawyer. Carol also worked at the Centre for International Law (CIL), where she organised the ASEAN Law Academy workshop and maintained the legal instrument database — both key ASEAN capacity building resources.
At NUS, Carol attended the Conference of the Parties (COP) and presented at the International Union of Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Academy of Environmental Law Colloquium. She also prepared policy papers on Singapore’s carbon pricing and environmental impact assessment laws as part of the Environmental Law Students Association.
Carol was awarded the Best Student in the University Research Opportunities Programme and the Tan Keng Feng Prize for Best Directed Research for a research paper on ASEAN’s approach to combatting human trafficking. She also clinched first runner-up in the Jean Pictet Competition — an international humanitarian law moot — and is currently a coach for this moot.
Carol has a passion for learning languages including Japanese and French. She holds a Diploma in Business Translation and Interpretation (English and Chinese) issued by the Nanyang Technological University-Confucius Institute.
Having been consistently involved in public interest work, Carol now hopes to contribute to environmental law scholarship to build a more just and equitable world.
Publication
Carol Yuen, “Making ASEAN’s Approach to Combatting Human Trafficking More Effective: Adopting a Complementary Human Rights Approach to Address the Insufficiencies of and Supplement the Current Securitisation Approach” (2019-2020) 37 Singapore Law Review 61
